Jekyll and Hyde Quotations Flashcards
Dr Henry Jekyll
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“Wrong, wrong in mind”. This suggests that Dr Henry Jekyll isn’t in a fit mental state and that he is endangering society.
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“And stood already committed to the profound duplicity of life” This suggests that Dr Jekyll is bound to a life of being two people. He leads a double life to appear a civil member of society while pleasuring himself in secret by doing scientific experiments.
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“I began to perceive more deeply than it has ever yet been stated, the trembling immateriality” This suggests that Dr Jekyll is confident in his own intellect. It also suggests that Dr Jekyll is confident. He sees his scientific discovery as a ground breaking discovery.
Mr Edward Hyde
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“There was something abnormal and misbegotten in the very essence of the creature”. This suggests that Hyde’s evilness makes him repulsive and not a very nice person.
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“He was a being inherently malign and villainous; his every act and thought centred on self”. This suggests that Hyde is narcissistic. Everything he did revolved around him.
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“I was conscious of no repugnance, rather a leap of welcome”. This suggests that Hyde is familiar with his unpleasant appearance. He doesn’t find himself repellent.
Mr Utterson
“his affections like ivy were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object”. This suggests that Utterson chooses his friends carefully and he becomes attached to people that he has known over a long time.
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“Henry Jekyll forge for a murderer”. This suggests that Utterson has deciphered the fact that Henry Jekyll and Mr Hyde might be similar.
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“Pull yourself together”. Utterson is a voice of rationality,
Dr Lanyon
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“He began to go wrong, wrong in mind”. This suggests that Dr Lanyon saw what was going wrong with Dr Jekyll before everyone else.
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“Bound to the most narrow and material views”. In Hyde’s view, Lanyon is fixated by science and can only accept ideas if they can find a place in the physical world.
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“My life is shaken to its roots”. Dr Lanyon has witnessed something that he will never recover from.
Mr Enfield
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“I gave a view halloa, took to my heels, collared my gentleman, and brought him back”. This means that Enfield extracted money from Hyde when he trampled over the girl.
What is the plot of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?
The plot of this novella is that strange events keep happening including Mr Hyde trampling over a girl, Mr Hyde disappearing, the brutal murder of an MP, Jekyll becomes ill, Lanyon dying and Mr Hyde committing suicide. These events leave Utterson confused along with the other characters. Eventually, it becomes clear that Mr Hyde and Dr Jekyll are the same person.
What happens in Chapter One?
In chapter one, the lawyer Mr Utterson is introduced as a rational man and a sensible thinker. During his walk with Mr Enfield he sees a battered door that reminds him of an incident whereby Mr Hyde trampled over a girl brutally.
